Wordpress Tweaks

As I get more proficient with blogging, I am finding more and more really cool plugins and tools to help. One such plugin that I found recently was sooooo way cool, I just had to share it in it’s own post. (Come on, you knew I was a Wordpress Plugin Junkie, right?)

WordPress Tweaks is a plugin that adds a "Tweaks" page to your WordPress options. Each individual tweak can be enabled/disabled at will using a checkbox. These tweaks include:

Admin

• Disable tag autocomplete
• Disable the Dashboard
• Disable the Flash uploader
• Remove the width restraint on administration pages

Comments and Pings

• Disable self-pinging
• Open external comment links in new windows
• Show comments in reverse order

Posts

• Open external post links in new windows
• When displaying post excerpts on archive and search pages, display a "Read more »" link instead of "[...]"

Nofollow

• Add to post comment links
• Add to "Read more" links
• Add to tag cloud links
• Add to the "Register" and "Login" links
• Remove from comment author links
• Remove from comment body links

SEO

• Only show the tag cloud widget on the homepage
• Show post excerpts (instead of full content) on archive pages

Security

• Disable directory listing for my plugins folder
• Hide WordPress’s version number from my theme and feeds

Theme and Appearance

• Add code references to favicon.ico
• Remove white space from pages list

WordPress 2.3 Legacy Fixes

• Rename "Blogroll" admin menu item to "Links"
• Fix: current_page_item on page_for_posts

Now, if you are new to blogging, some of these tweaks might not make a lot of sense to you right now. Trust me, just get the plugin and enable most of the items. They all help!

You can get a copy of this plugin on John Lamansky’s blog, the Wordpress Expert

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